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Luke 6:2

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

"Why are you doing what it is not allowable to do on the Sabbath?" asked some of the Pharisees.

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But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: "Look! your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!"

"How is it that your disciples break the traditions of our ancestors? For they do not wash their hands when they eat food."

"Look!" the Pharisees said to him, "why are they doing what is not allowed on the Sabbath?"

"John's disciples," they said to Jesus, "Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!"

And that was why the Jews began to persecute Jesus--because he did things of this kind on the Sabbath.